CIS-DF CSDM Fundamentals Practice Test 3 — 15 Questions

Question 1

Which CSDM domain covers the definition and management of Technical Services that support internal IT operations?

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Manage Technical Services. The Manage Technical Services domain includes technical services and their supporting infrastructure.

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Design

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Foundation

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Sell/Consume

Question 2

An enterprise wants to ensure that change requests correctly assess risk by identifying which Application Services will experience downtime during a server patch. Which CSDM relationship makes this impact calculation possible?

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The relationship between the Server CI and the Application Service ('Depends on / Used by').. Change requests reference Application Services, which in turn have dependency relationships to the underlying patched servers.

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The link between Foundation companies and Locations.

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The assignment group field on the Incident table.

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The direct mapping between User Groups and Business Capabilities.

Question 3

What is the primary objective of the 'Crawl' phase in the CSDM framework?

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To establish foundational data and baseline CMDB population.. The Crawl phase focuses on establishing baseline foundational data, user data, and basic asset/CI population.

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To retire all legacy applications across the enterprise.

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To publish all service catalog offerings to external customers.

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To achieve full enterprise financial cost allocation and automated AI optimization.

Question 4

Which CSDM phase focuses on ensuring that data quality is maintained and operational metrics are fully integrated across all four domains?

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Run. Run is the operational maturity phase where metrics, cost transparency, and multi-domain integration are fully operationalized.

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Fly

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Crawl

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Walk

Question 5

You are auditing a ServiceNow instance and notice that an Application Service record has been created directly on the Business Application table rather than the Application Service table. What corrective action must be taken?

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Delete the incorrect record and create a new record on the Application Service table [cmdb_ci_service_calculated], linking it to the correct Business Application.. Records must reside on their respective proper tables. An Application Service must be created on [cmdb_ci_service_calculated], and the mistaken record on the Business Application table should be deleted or converted.

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Convert the record into a Technical Service Offering.

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Leave the record as-is, because Business Application and Application Service tables are interchangeable in newer ServiceNow releases.

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Change the table attribute in Dictionary Overrides so that Business Applications act as Application Services.

Question 6

Your enterprise has implemented CSDM, but incident managers report that problem investigation is slowed because problem records are linked to Business Applications instead of Application Services. Why does linking problems to Application Services improve investigation efficiency?

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Application Services provide the specific deployment and runtime infrastructure context needed to trace hardware and software component failures.. Application Services tie directly to specific runtime infrastructure instances (servers, databases), allowing problem analysts to pinpoint faulty infrastructure components causing failures.

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Problem records cannot be saved unless an Application Service is populated.

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Application Services automatically generate patch scripts for problem analysts.

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Business Applications automatically reject problem records that lack an assigned change advisory board.

Question 7

An IT architect wants to map a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application (e.g., Workday) into the CSDM framework. Since there is no on-premise infrastructure to discover, how should Workday be modeled?

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As a Business Application record linked to an Application Service record representing the SaaS tenant, without requiring local infrastructure CIs.. Workday should be modeled as a Business Application record in the Design domain, with an Application Service record linked to it representing the SaaS subscription/tenant environment.

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As a Technical Service with no portfolio parent.

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As an unmapped Incident record.

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As a Hardware Asset CI in the Foundation domain.

Question 8

Your company uses Service Graph connectors and Discovery to populate CIs. A database administrator complains that their production database instance appears under multiple different Application Services in the CMDB. According to CSDM best practices, what does this multi-mapping indicate?

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It is a valid architectural scenario if the database is genuinely shared, but requires correct 'Depends on / Used by' relationships to each Application Service.. A single database instance supporting multiple Application Services is valid if it is a shared database cluster, but improper mapping can cause false positive impact analysis if not structured with correct relationship types.

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It is a critical CSDM violation; a database CI can never be associated with more than one Application Service.

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It means the database must be converted into a Service Offering immediately.

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It indicates that Discovery has duplicated the database CI into the Business Application table.

Question 9

Which CSDM domain contains entities such as Business Units, Companies, Locations, Departments, and Users?

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Foundation. The Foundation domain contains core organizational and user data required across all ServiceNow applications.

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Manage Technical Services

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Sell/Consume

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Design

Question 10

An organization wants to publish a service catalog item for 'New Laptop Request'. Which CSDM domain governs the catalog item and the associated Service Offering?

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Sell/Consume. Service Offerings and Catalog items are governed by the Sell/Consume domain.

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Design

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Manage Technical Services

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Foundation

Question 11

An IT team is configuring Application Services and wants to understand the difference between a Manual Application Service and a Dynamic CI Group Application Service. Which statement accurately describes their operational differences?

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Manual services require manual addition of CIs, whereas Dynamic CI Groups use queries to automatically populate CIs.. Manual Application Services require manual addition of CIs, whereas Dynamic CI Groups automatically update CIs based on query criteria.

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Dynamic CI Groups replace the need for Business Applications entirely.

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Dynamic CI Groups can only be used for hardware CIs, while Manual services are exclusively for software.

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Manual services do not support incident mapping, while Dynamic CI Groups do.

Question 12

Which CSDM domain represents the core conceptual view of applications before they are deployed into specific environments?

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Design. The Design domain captures the conceptual portfolio view of applications via the Business Application table.

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Manage Technical Services

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Foundation

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Sell/Consume

Question 13

Your organization is experiencing reporting discrepancies where incidents logged against an Application Service are not rolling up correctly into the parent Business Application dashboard. Upon inspection, you find that the Application Service is missing its link to the Business Application. Which field must be populated to resolve this reporting rollup issue?

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Business application field on the Application Service record.. The 'Business application' reference field on the Application Service record must point to the correct Business Application.

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Assigned group field on the Business Capability record.

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Parent CI field on the Incident record.

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Service portfolio field on the Technical Service record.

Question 14

Your organization wants to map a complex application architecture where three distinct Business Applications feed data into a central data warehouse Application Service. According to CSDM best practices, how should Business Applications relate to Application Services in data-sharing pipelines?

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Business Applications represent the portfolio software, while Application Services represent the deployed data pipeline instances connected via integration relationships.. Business Applications represent portfolio software entries, and Application Services represent the deployed instances that consume or share data via integration relationships.

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Data pipelines must be modeled as Business Capabilities in the Foundation domain.

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Business Applications must be deleted and replaced entirely by Incident records.

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Application Services cannot participate in data integration mapping.

Question 15

An administrator is setting up a new technical service for internal server backup management. Where should this technical service be classified according to CSDM?

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Manage Technical Services domain. Internal IT-managed technical services belong in the Manage Technical Services domain.

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Design domain as a Business Application

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Sell/Consume domain as a public Catalog Item

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Foundation domain as a User Group